Friday, March 21, 2008

THE ANALYSIS OF STYLE OF SPEECH USED BY BROADCASTERS ON A PRIVATE RADIO “YASIKA 95.4 FM” YOGYAKARTA

By

Neny Handayani
02004210

ABSTRACT

Style of speech can be used in all aspects of life that uses language as a means of communication. The writer would like to describe the phenomenon of linguistic features of style and analyzes the stylistic characteristics conducted by broadcasters.

In this thesis, the writer uses the qualitative research method that uses the non-numeral data. It is obtained from the conversation and utterances in the broadcasters’ speech. The data in this research are all words, phrases, clauses, and sentences that are uttered by broadcasters. The writer collects the data by listening to the radio, recording and noting all of the utterances of the broadcasters’ speech. The writer uses the purposive sampling, a technique to determine the sample of data. The reason is because the Sunday’s English program consists of four sessions that are heterogeneous, so she just takes some speeches from those sessions since November 2005 until January 2006. It is limited based on the ability of the writer, time, energy, and financial factors. The research applies the descriptive technique to analyze the data. The collected data are identified categorized, and analyzed based on the basis of linguistic knowledge of the writer.

The research object in this study is style of speech used by broadcasters on a private radio “Yasika 95.4 FM” Yogyakarta. The writer collects the data by listening to the radio in the English program. The program consists of four sessions Yasika Sunday Work Out, Yasika Sunday Brunch, Yasika Sunday Lucky Day and Yasika Sunday Long Dream. The research findings are: (1) The linguistic features of style can be divided into phonological variants (different ways of pronouncing the same sounds), lexical variants (different words for the same things), and syntactic variants (different grammatical constructions for the same meaning). In the speech of the broadcasters, they often use the non-standard pronunciation and use the words of casual style in the informal situation. The broadcasters in this program frequently use the casual style in the informal situation. In relation to the syntactic variants, the writer classifies into phrases, clauses and sentences. The broadcasters’ speech has some features as follows; there are the inflection of be, the usage of contracted form, the prepositional differences, and the inflections of subject and auxiliary. Nevertheless, the differences in phonological, lexical, and syntactic variants can also enrich the language itself so those can make the language more attractive to use. (2) The stylistic characteristics conducted by the broadcasters are classified into serious, ironic, humorous, dubious, happy, sad, and angry styles.


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